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"he was President Lincoln's successor"nouna person who follows next in order
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nouna person who inherits some title or office
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nouna thing or person that immediately replaces something or someonetype of:
Definition that contains successor
- follow be the successor (of)
- succeed be the successor (of)
- bishop a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- joshua (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho
- raf a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
- fsb the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin
- papal proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
- sunni a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad
- apostolic proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
- wedgwood a type of pottery made by Josiah Wedgwood and his successors; typically has a classical decoration in white on a blue background